Calluna vulgaris
‘County Wicklow’
at Digging Dog

Calluna

Heather

Callunas’ tiny, scalelike leaves range from deepest green to silver, gold and bronze, with some changing color after a frost. Flowering from mid-to-late summer in cool whites, pinks and purples, the small, bell-shaped flowers are frozen in graceful repose on one-sided spikes. Heathers are marvelous fresh or dried.

Calluna vulgaris ‘County Wicklow’   

During a visit to Ireland’s Wicklow mountains, Miss Meta Archer first spotted a handsome, low growing medium green heather that seemed worthy of introduction way back in 1925. ‘County Wicklow’ has survived the test of time; It’s renowned for both its beauty and vigor, and acclaimed by the American Garden Society as “one of the finest double pink cultivars.”

A parent to ‘Kinlochruel’, this compact Heather offsets summer’s heat with a verdant bushy base and composed, six in. tall, shell pink racemes.

Blooms July–September.

Size: 10"–12" high x 18" wide; hardy to zone 4.

Calluna vulgaris County Wicklow (S-0626)
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